[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Félix Robles]

>
>
> >> > When I learn someone's idea, am I stealing it? It's illegal to steal
> >> just
> >> > because of that gap. Copying is not stealing, it's another thing.
> >>
> >> Its more like riding a train without having bought a ticket...
> >
> > Are you trying to say that a free download is a lost sell?
>
> Is a trainride without ticket a lost sell?


I think Stallman has just answered that and I couldn't agree more with him.




On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Christian Hufgard
<pp at christian-hufgard.de>wrote:

>
> Félix Robles wrote:
> > Well, I have never bought a CD music album and I intend to keep it that
> > way.
> > Though perhaps some day I'l buy an LP or two. And I'm sure artists will
> > keep
> > releasin their albums somehow, because they need promotion: people won't
> > go
> > to their concerts if they haven't listened to them before. And that's
> what
> > albums should be considered, I think: promotion for their concerts.
> > Whether
> > you pay or that album or not is irrelevant, the relevant part is getting
> > people to live concerts, which is working now better than any other past
> > time, thanks to "piracy".
>
> So you are the person who decides, how a musician has to earn his money?
> Sorry, we won't match in that point. If you do not want to buy music an
> artist wants to sell: Than do not consume it.
>

You want me to pay because I listened to a song? No, thanks, I do not need
to pay for listening to music. That's not "consuming".
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